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Variation, Selection, Development

Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change

Herausgegeben: Eckardt, Regine; Jäger, Gerhard; Veenstra, Tonjes
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Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions.In one of the youngest and rapidly growing areas of linguistic research, mathematical models and simulations of competition based developments have been applied to instances of language change. By matching the predicted and observed developmental trends, researchers gauge existing models to the needs ...